Tug of War

Competitiveness makes you less sympathetic. When you are competitive, you are motivated by winning itself. This means that you want to believe that when you win, it is a good thing, a thing you deserve, even though winning in a competitive scenario means someone else lost or otherwise didn't win, and moreover, succeeding where another fails inherently means they must be at some sort of disadvantage. We don't like to admit these things, but they are perfectly true. We should be careful about how we fall into competitiveness. It's an important force, even a critical one. But it blinds us in a few ways. We ought to see clearly, sometimes, at least, what they are.